A month that seems like a year.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Beautiful otherworldly clouds this morning. Of course, the trickster winds returned later in the day.

And it has been a day. Last marker for the month: She-Wolf, who we had to help begin her journey to another plane on this morning eight years ago, after developing interstitial cancer of the bladder, an aggressive, fast-moving form. She got four more months than they told us she would, and when the inevitable happened on the night of the 26th, we had Ted out the following morning to help her. And we still miss her every day; of all our dogs, she was probably the one that was love in its purest form.

And one more reason why I hate April; it's four of these markers in one month. 

A month that seems like a year.

Also today, doctor's appointments for both of us, and new meds: one for him, to see if it helps with pain management for his knees; a new med for me plus an increase in my regular pain med to see if it helps me with pain management for everything.

Because everything hurts like hell, all the time. Lots of cash out as a result, and there will be more when we pick up the scrips. And no sales.

Meanwhile, all the work still has to get done: the housework, the paperwork, the sales work, everything. And the one thing that came out of the tax nonsense is that I was not losing my mind; last year, we made barely more than 50% of the previous year's sales, which tells you how bad Trump is for business [and for everything else except inflicting harm]. The problem is that everything still has to get paid, and we paid in cash, in full, and now we've got recover a lot of that if we're going to make it through the year. And we've got to maintain it, because we've also got big costs [the side exterior door, for one; the flue cleanings for another; and a set of tires for the truck for a third] immediately ahead. But I have got to get us caught up on this awful year in terms of sales. To that end, links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [and to whomever sent a bunch of items off it that have arrived recently, THANK YOU; there were no purchaser inserts with the items, zip, zero, nada];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been pretty grim.

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